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yugoalman.bsky.social
Die digitale Totmanneinrichtung zeigt dir jetzt an, ob deine Familie in den USA verschleppt wurde oder tot ist.
Reddit Thread in r/claudeAI I got tired of watching immigrant families live in fear, so I built Dropsafe wir Claude Code. DropSafe is a daily check-in service. You check in every day. If you don't check in, it tells your trusted contacts something might be wrong. It gives them info so they can help. I built it for immigrant communities facing ICE raids.
August 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
bro-laren.bsky.social
GardaWorld, the people who couldn't figure out my store's dropsafe for 3 weeks straight to collect a deposit, will be overseeing the lives and welfare of an entire prison.
kateross.bsky.social Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Mar 9
“GardaWorld Federal Services, a security contractor, was awarded at least $313.4 million to run the detention center planned at a Surprise, Arizona, warehouse. Prior to the Arizona award, it had not been directly contracted by ICE to oversee any detention centers, records show.”

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March 9, 2026 at 10:17 PM
catanonim.me
Correct. VPNs are for general online safety.

~ “The UK war on VPNs is an embarrassment” | Jimmy Wales – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/143312
“The UK war on VPNs is an embarrassment” | Jimmy Wales – Dropsafe
Quote: The UK war on VPNs is an embarassment.  For child safety, we should be teaching children about Internet safety – including why you should use a VPN to protect your privacy, block …
alecmuffett.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:39 AM
catanonim.me
~ Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowing – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/161713
Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowing – Dropsafe
Threats to online anonymity harm everyone, but one group is often overlooked: journalists and the sources who talk to them. Age verification requirements will help the Trump administration carry ou…
alecmuffett.com
June 29, 2026 at 6:14 AM
catanonim.me
~ Question: how will this supposed UK Digital ID work for people who use rooted phones and open source operating systems with alternative app stores, as demanded in the EU Digital Services Act? – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/115250
Question: how will this supposed UK Digital ID work for people who use rooted phones and open source operating systems with alternative app stores, as demanded in the EU Digital Services Act? – Dropsafe
Visit the post for more.
alecmuffett.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
catanonim.me
~ If you are a Parent here’s One Thing you should be utterly furious about regarding the UK’s Social Media Ban – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/160943
If you are a Parent here’s One Thing you should be utterly furious about regarding the UK’s Social Media Ban – Dropsafe
You cannot demand that children return to an analogue childhood after spending forty years dismantling the transport, community, communication and public-service infrastructure that made analogue c…
alecmuffett.com
June 18, 2026 at 10:20 PM
neoninnovationlab.bsky.social
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August 3, 2026 at 2:00 PM
catanonim.me
~ [Europe] voted today to end chat monitoring 1.0. This ends an exception that was used, in particular, by US Big Tech companies to monitor billions of people’s private messages without suspicion – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/151697
[Europe] voted today to end chat monitoring 1.0. This ends an exception that was used, in particular, by US Big Tech companies to monitor billions of people’s private messages without suspicion – Dropsafe
The European Parliament has thus formally concluded the legislative process . The Digital Society Association and many individuals had previously contacted the Members of Parliament, appealing to t…
alecmuffett.com
March 26, 2026 at 9:01 PM
catanonim.me
~ IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act | Hacker News – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/119703
IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act | Hacker News – Dropsafe
Hackernews comment amongst themselves regarding Ofcom’s chasing foreign websites rather than pursuing domestic censorship:
alecmuffett.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Honestly can’t tell if Civil Society believes that copyright-breaking LibGen & SciHub are rebel heroes or piratical villains – Dropsafe https://alecmuffett.com/article/112149
alecmuffett.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
catanonim.me
~ UK hopes to monetize leadership in surveillance, censorship, age verification of basically everybody in order to gatekeep the Internet – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/160966
UK hopes to monetize leadership in surveillance, censorship, age verification of basically everybody in order to gatekeep the Internet – Dropsafe
UK positions digital standards as strategic infrastructure through 2030 | Biometric Update
alecmuffett.com
June 18, 2026 at 9:59 PM
catanonim.me
~ The Ofcom Files, Part V: Block Harder | Preston Byrne – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/140193
The Ofcom Files, Part V: Block Harder | Preston Byrne – Dropsafe
First … As a so-called “independent regulator,” Ofcom is not supposed to reverse itself under political pressure. Here, it appears to have done so.Second, in the absence of any concrete evidence th…
alecmuffett.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:34 PM
catanonim.me
~ UK House of Lords seeks ban on Swiss Army Knives that “…could be used to cut people” – Dropsafe ~

/sarc/

https://alecmuffett.com/article/150803
UK House of Lords seeks ban on Swiss Army Knives that “…could be used to cut people” – Dropsafe
“We are not against pen knives in principle”, says peer, “…but we want manufacturers to take steps to prevent them being used to cause harm.”
alecmuffett.com
March 22, 2026 at 10:51 AM
catanonim.me
~ UK Government: “children deserve social isolation and pervasive surveillance to prepare them for their future lives” – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/145718
UK Government: “children deserve social isolation and pervasive surveillance to prepare them for their future lives” – Dropsafe
“We are determined to give children the childhood they deserve and to prepare them for the future at time of rapid technological change.”
alecmuffett.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:04 AM
catanonim.me
Not entirely sure I can see "effective and professional oversight" working when such as Palantir are able to harvest the lot.

https://alecmuffett.com/article/110467
“If you let Google have your data, why not the NHS?” | …or, indeed, the Police? The security services? Glib, dehumanising foolishness from @phillipinman … – Dropsafe
I have literally watched Sir David Omand (ex-GCHQ) stand on stage and make the argument that “Amazon and Google have all of this information about you, why can’t the government have it …
alecmuffett.com
October 21, 2024 at 8:24 AM
catanonim.me
~ Journalists! Why you should not bother wasting your/everyone’s time covering “Age Verification” on Linux: The “Tug of War” Theory of Open Source – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/148084
Journalists! Why you should not bother wasting your/everyone’s time covering “Age Verification” on Linux: The “Tug of War” Theory of Open Source – Dropsafe
tl;dr: the “project” of open source age verification will inevitably implode — probably messily — and waste everyone’s time whilst also reifying narrative of “support”…
alecmuffett.com
March 4, 2026 at 12:53 PM
catanonim.me
An expert.

~ UK Digital ID Cards: is the Government going to compensate UK business for losses due to forcing them to accept additional risk? – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/115347
UK Digital ID Cards: is the Government going to compensate UK business for losses due to forcing them to accept additional risk? – Dropsafe
I spent the best part of 14 hours yesterday learning how to argue with people who, perhaps blindly, believe that Digital ID will bring “advantages” to “everybody”; a detaile…
alecmuffett.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
genericuser1234567.bsky.social
The entire magwell area of a 2011 is usually a removable polymer piece

What's really funny is that these literal gamer guns started getting coopted by cops with more money than sense (Staccato) despite not being dropsafe
October 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
catanonim.me
~ Remember that big win on ChatControl a couple of weeks ago? It turns out they didn’t like  the result and they want to vote on it again, TODAY. Sorry. – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/151637
Remember that big win on ChatControl a couple of weeks ago? It turns out they didn’t like  the result and they want to vote on it again, TODAY. Sorry. – Dropsafe
The Conservatives (EPP) are attempting to force a new vote TODAY (March 26) seeking to reverse the European Parliament’s NO on indiscriminate scanning of ALL your private messages, emails and…
alecmuffett.com
March 26, 2026 at 1:10 PM
catanonim.me
~ UK Govt to demand AgeVerification of “ALL regulated user-to-user” services, and VPNs for anyone under 18; well that would end online anonymity in the UK… – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/146692
UK Govt to demand AgeVerification of “ALL regulated user-to-user” services, and VPNs for anyone under 18; well that would end online anonymity in the UK… – Dropsafe
…or else it’ll just teach the teens to download TorBrowser and other circumvention tools. See page 54 & 55 of the Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill:
alecmuffett.com
February 23, 2026 at 2:24 PM
catanonim.me
~ “Keir Starmer is hell-bent on destroying your right to a private life” | …I absolutely detest that the mainstream parliamentary parties are sitting on their hands regarding this matter – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/141286
“Keir Starmer is hell-bent on destroying your right to a private life” | …I absolutely detest that the mainstream parliamentary parties are sitting on their hands regarding this matter – Dropsafe
We shouldn’t have to be reading this written by somebody from Reform, published in the Telegraph. Where are the LibDems defending privacy? “Who could object to stopping these most heino…
alecmuffett.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:18 PM
catanonim.me
~ Content Moderation History: do we all remember 2013-19 when online sociology pundits were everywhere expounding the need to block streaming/sharing of video of people being murdered? – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/143092
Content Moderation History: do we all remember 2013-19 when online sociology pundits were everywhere expounding the need to block streaming/sharing of video of people being murdered? – Dropsafe
It began in the wake of various atrocities (civil unrest, government oppression, rioting, live streamed mass shootings) and over generalisations which tended to cite Facebook as at least the &#8220…
alecmuffett.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:16 PM
catanonim.me
"The Swiss Parliament voted to adopt a motion (144 yes vs 24 no) to protect Swiss Internet users from indiscriminate scanning of private messages proposed by the EU Commission"

~ Hurrah for Switzerland – Dropsafe ~

alecmuffett.com/article/110439
Hurrah for Switzerland
The Swiss Parliament voted to adopt a motion (144 yes vs 24 no) to protect Swiss Internet users from indiscriminate scanning of private messages proposed by the EU Commission
alecmuffett.com
October 1, 2024 at 8:33 AM
alecmuffett.bsky.social
I can't speak for @molly.wiki but I've been doing this since ~2012 (att.) & recently a lot better/more seriously; I find it helps with my mental health to drop stuff on my blog and have it trickle out at a gentle cadence on weekdays + it increases engagement.

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February 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
catanonim.me
~ UK Gov *rejects* “privacy by design” architecture, GDPR-mandated data minimisation now supposedly “makes children unsafe” – Dropsafe ~

https://alecmuffett.com/article/160669
Disappearing messages exist in order to empower people to take control of their digital exhaust trail and to minimise the opportunities for third parties to abuse older information. The government is now against this key precept of information security, because children: Coming Monday: disappearing messages have been thrown onto the regulatory table, out of nowhere, as a child safety issue. Which of course has nothing to do with disappearing messages only recently being cited as an issue of government transparency in the Mandelson files. Total coincidence. — Heather Burns (@heatherburnstech.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T05:10:41.808Z
June 13, 2026 at 8:26 AM